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From: "Karr, David" <david DOT karr AT cacheflow DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Get file type information about name returned from "type -p"
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:42:40 -0700 
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I'm trying to design some validation scripts for an environment.  One thing
I want to check for is whether a script named "foo" is earlier in the path
than a file named "foo.exe".  I already have tools for parsing and searching
the PATH, but when Cygwin reports that it found a "foo" in my path, I'm
having trouble figuring out exactly what the file name is, or what kind of
file it is.  The "type" command gives me a name without an extent, but the
"file" command doesn't like that.

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